The Bridge Crew Saw It Swimming And The Log Says "Debris"
53% BELIEVED
CASE FILE #320
FILED: Mar 27, 2026
CLASSIFICATION: Cryptid Encounters
WITNESS ON RECORD: FerryDeckRui
JURY OF 243 READERS HEARD THIS CASE: 129 believed it, 48 had doubts, 66 weren't buying it.
I do not want to lose my job, so I am going to be careful with the geography.
We were making a night crossing, calm, radar clean. The mate was on watch and I was on the wing because I smoke and because the ship does not care about my lungs.
He put the spotlight on the water at about half a mile off the bow, on something he had seen with binoculars and did not like.
It was swimming. It had an over-arm stroke, alternating, the way a person swims, and it was making better time than a person can make. Its head was above the water and it was dark, and when the light hit it, it stopped, and it turned in the water — turned, deliberately, treading — and it looked at us for maybe three seconds.
Then it went under and it did not come back up.
Two miles offshore. November water. Nothing swims two miles offshore in that water for fun.
The mate did not put down the binoculars for about a minute. Then he wrote "debris sighted, no hazard" in the log, and he wrote it in the flattest handwriting I have ever seen from him.
We were making a night crossing, calm, radar clean. The mate was on watch and I was on the wing because I smoke and because the ship does not care about my lungs.
He put the spotlight on the water at about half a mile off the bow, on something he had seen with binoculars and did not like.
It was swimming. It had an over-arm stroke, alternating, the way a person swims, and it was making better time than a person can make. Its head was above the water and it was dark, and when the light hit it, it stopped, and it turned in the water — turned, deliberately, treading — and it looked at us for maybe three seconds.
Then it went under and it did not come back up.
Two miles offshore. November water. Nothing swims two miles offshore in that water for fun.
The mate did not put down the binoculars for about a minute. Then he wrote "debris sighted, no hazard" in the log, and he wrote it in the flattest handwriting I have ever seen from him.
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Votes on record: 129 believed · 48 unsure · 66 didn't · 53% of readers believe this story